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Subject: Re: File name extensions

Author: Ricardo Gibert

Date: 05:00:50 11/14/00

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On November 14, 2000 at 07:34:44, Leen Ammeraal wrote:

>Can someone please explain the file name extensions
>.pgn and .fen to me? Are they abbreviations?
>Leen Ammeraal

Files with these extensions are really just text files. You can view and edit
them in a text editor. The pgn extension identifies a text file that is a game
listing conforming to the PGN specification (hopefully). fen is analogous for
representing a specific position. This is what we use to create diagrams here,
e.g.

[D]7K/8/k1P5/7p/8/8/8/8 w - -

for more information, at ICC you can type "help pgn-spec"



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